/* Author: Paul S. Randal Original link: http://www.sqlskills.com/blogs/paul/most-common-latch-classes-and-what-they-mean/ */ WITH [Latches] AS (SELECT [latch_class], [wait_time_ms] / 1000.0 AS [WaitS], [waiting_requests_count] AS [WaitCount], 100.0 * [wait_time_ms] / SUM ([wait_time_ms]) OVER() AS [Percentage], ROW_NUMBER() OVER(ORDER BY [wait_time_ms] DESC) AS [RowNum] FROM sys.dm_os_latch_stats WHERE [latch_class] NOT IN ( N'BUFFER') AND [wait_time_ms] > 0 ) SELECT MAX ([W1].[latch_class]) AS [LatchClass], CAST (MAX ([W1].[WaitS]) AS DECIMAL(14, 2)) AS [Wait_S], MAX ([W1].[WaitCount]) AS [WaitCount], CAST (MAX ([W1].[Percentage]) AS DECIMAL(14, 2)) AS [Percentage], CAST ((MAX ([W1].[WaitS]) / MAX ([W1].[WaitCount])) AS DECIMAL (14, 4)) AS [AvgWait_S] FROM [Latches] AS [W1] INNER JOIN [Latches] AS [W2] ON [W2].[RowNum] <= [W1].[RowNum] GROUP BY [W1].[RowNum] HAVING SUM ([W2].[Percentage]) - MAX ([W1].[Percentage]) < 95; -- percentage threshold GO